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Hi! I'm new here, I have 10 years of front end experience but I have fallen behind in modern web practices in the past few years. I'm looking to change that and get back on track. This looks like a great resources to accomplish that.
Hey Kyle! Welcome to DEV. My name is Michael and I'm a Community Manager here.
Your experience definitely sounds familiar! I regularly hop into this Welcome Thread to say hi to new folks and there have been plenty of peeps pop in here saying that they've been on a coding hiatus for X number years and wanna get back into it. Just to say, that you'll fit in just fine here, haha.
Anywho, I hope you uncover some helpful resources and if you have any questions about our platform, don't hesitate to hit me up!
Thanks for the welcome, Michael! It's nice knowing I'm not alone.
You're very welcome, Kyle, and def not alone. 😀
You may not have any interest in posting here on DEV (which that is totally cool) but if you do, I think it'd be kinda interesting to folks to hear what things looked like 10 years ago and how they've changed today. That could make for a pretty fun, cool topic.
No pressure though, haha! 🙌
I can probably pull something together about working in a "restricted environment" and just share my experience.
I currently work front end in Higher Ed and we have to ensure our sites run on our various legacy system and browsers around campus. I remember 3 years ago I got my hand very gently slapped for writing a modal pop up which used 'let' instead of 'var'. Thats just been the envoirment I've been in for 10 years now.
I hope you do write on this!
It sounds like a relatable experience to me — though let me be honest and tell you that I'm not a dev, I'm mostly a nontechie. Still, I think I've been around the industry long enough to mostly follow what you're talking about. 🙂
I see "I got my hand very gently slapped for writing a modal pop up which used 'let' instead of 'var'" and I know you're working in JS, imagine you've chosen an out-of-date way of doing things, but I don't really know the specifics here.
My understanding is that because you're working on a legacy system you have to work with old code and I'd imagine in some ways it could be beneficial to know older methods so that you can more easily read and figure out what is happening. Of course, if you're tasked with updating legacy code, then it helps to know what newer features you can bring in or if something is deprecated. Anyway, I'm just spitballing, trying to imagine what it's like to be in your shoes from a high-level.
I wanna ask a question about what it's like to work on legacy code and I'm gonna use an analogy... fixing up an old car. Granted, I'm not a mechanic so I'm not sure why I'm taking it here, haha. Anyway, If you were to fix up an old car, I'd imagine you'd have two ways you could go about it:
Which of these do you think is more like working with legacy code? Or if neither of them are and this is just a bad analogy, then that's okay too, haha — just hit the brakes on me. 😅
Ha, I think the old car example is appropriate! I enjoyed the hit the brakes joke at the end as well. I'm sure the pain is felt on all ends of our sites. I can only speak to the Front-end however. I'm writing pure JS which is still a great practice today and I'm thankful for that, but I see all these 'new' (new mostly to me) frameworks and how they can streamline/organize/improve our sites, but the car's engine and body is so out of date these new tools are not even compatible. It’s also like asking your parents for a new framework like VUE, React, Astro and them telling you we have frameworks at home and its Bootstrap 4.0.
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Hi! I'm a seasoned generalist engineer and solo entrepreneur (in the making). I've joined DEV to increase my network and reach as an author and coach. I look forward to helping this community through community contributions and individual mentorship as much as possible. 🙂
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My name is Kelvin. I just started learning Front End June of 2023. I have learned so much but now I am trying to build a community. I found this website thru an X profile I follow. Please stop by and say hi! :-)
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Hello Kelvin and welcome to the DEV community!
Hi Kelvin !! Its great you are spreading your learnings by building your community :) .
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Dear Community,
I use my original name for my username.I am a hobbyist programmer,with some experience in casual gamedev in the past.I am learning more about the web now.I joined here to learn more about the same.Any form of help is appreciated .
Thank you!
Good stuff, Prince! You've landed at the right place. My name is Michael and I'm a Community Manager here at DEV — good to meet you!
Our community is filled with web developers and web dev posts. You'll definitely wanna check out #webdev — it's our most popular tag so you can't miss it.
Cool to hear that you've done some casual game dev! While it's not exactly game dev, someone recently posted about their personal portfolio that they stylized to look like a Gameboy game. You might find this one fun:
My new GameBoy style portfolio
Matteo Santoro Dev ・ Jan 10
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I hope to be able to share my knowledge and learn from others' knowledge :D
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Hi everyone I just got here and unfortunately I don't have but a minute cause I'm a truck driver lol. First of all allow me to introduce myself. I'm Stan Owens original from Ga for all of you that are here in Houston TX. I'm most certainly green as they come when it comes to tech but hopefully this will be the beginning of a terrific education. It's a pleasure to meet everyone and I look forward to learning from you all. So long for now but I'll be back...
Great to meet you, Stan! My name is Michael and I'm a Community Manager here at DEV — welcome to the site. 🙂
Are you hoping to make a career transition from truck driving to being a dev or are you more just learning about software development as a hobby?
Well, I hope the community is a good resource for ya. We got lots of helpful experienced devs here but also tons of people that are brand new! Also, we have folks from all different backgrounds and parts of the world. Just to say that you'll fit right in here! 🙌
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My name is Mubaraka, and for the past six months, I've been a junior software engineer at a software engineering company. Though I appreciate the focus on code delivery to meet client needs and the lack of extensive code reviews, I'm still a beginner and would love to learn best practices to further improve my coding skills. That's why I've joined this platform—to obtain insights from experienced members' posts and blogs.
Hello Everyone I'm Abdul Haseeb. I'm learning fullstack web development.Currently i'm learning Node + Express backend and brushing my javascript skills using FreeCodeCamp. If you are a newbie, I would love to help you with your journey, feel free to reach out, Thank you
Hey Abdul 👋
Welcome to DEV! I hope that you have a good time meeting folks and learning more in the community here.
Thanks Michael, Nice to meet you.
Hello, I am Istiak Islam from Bangladesh. I am undergrad student with computer science background. Currently I doing some project so I need help from you guys and I also want to share my knowledge with you to improve my learnings and also track them. So I am here now ! Let's have fun, coding, and enjoy!
Hey Istiak!
My name is Michael and I'm a Community Manager at DEV — welcome!
Great to have ya with us here. 😀
What projects ya working on btw?
Also, if you have any questions or need help from folks, you might consider posting an article to ask the community for thoughts or assistance. If doing so, I recommend using these tags: #help and/or #discuss.
Anywho, hope you have a good one and see ya around DEV!
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